Yesterday MochiMedia changed the games feed adding a new field called metascore that screwed the feed parsing. So I am releasing the new version, compatible with the new feed and tested with WordPress 2.9.2. You can find it at the official page. Talking about plugins, I am developing a new theme/plugin using crontables that automatically [...]

After seeing the character creation in Box2D Flash game creation tutorial – part 1, it’s time to add some coins to collect. This process will involve some interesting Box2D features, like sensors and custom collision management. I would suggest to read the basics of sensors at Erase Box: the tutorial and custom collision management at [...]

I am playing isometric games for more than 20 years… probably started with Q*bert, one of the oldest games I played is Head Over Heels on my Commodore 64, and I was an hardcore player of UFO: Enemy Unknown. As you should know, isometric projection is a method of visually representing three-dimensional objects in two [...]

Do you remember Emanuele Ornella from Mind the Move? It’s the guy behind the Come2Play multiplayer API tutorial posted about a month ago. Now he is explaining us a new way to monetize Flash games: GamesChart « When I first saw the announcement on Flash Game Developers group on www.linkedIn.com about the GamesChart beta program [...]

My first Flash game tutorial ever was Flash game creation tutorial – part 1. It was the first of a series to create a game like jmtb‘s ball games. It was an old AS2 series, and some steps have been ported in AS3 with Create a Flash ball game using AS3. The “ball” game is [...]

No matter if you are a Flash game developer, a web designer, a video editor, a programmer or whatever… the more your work on your computer, the more files you will generate. After a while, your hard disk will become a nasty place full of shattered project if you don’t follow some simple rules. That’s [...]

In Box2d, bodies aren’t only affected by gravity and collisions, but you can also apply forces to them. Knowing the right force to apply is very important when you want to control a body, as you may want to do in a Flash game Let’s see the forces you can apply: Applying a force public [...]

After seeing the Lineball video teaser I got some email asking me how did I make the hollow circle with Box2D, and how to get a smooth drawing using box primitives. Well, I have to say I didn’t use Box2d, but another library called Collision Detection Kit. I’ll publish some tutorial about it once I’ll [...]

This is a quick video teaser of my upcoming game (probably) called Lineball. It’s a draw game, a classic in which you must draw a line to make a ball reach the goal, but with some twists, such as the ability to control ball’s speed with arrow keys, red zones that will kill your ball [...]

I bet you all downloaded Firefox 3.6. One of the new features is Personas, which allows you to instantly change the look of your Firefox with thousands of easy-to-install themes. There are thousands of Personas to choose from, with more added every day, because users can upload their own, in a growing library with more [...]